I loved the ACM album when it came out and still enjoy much of it today. Particularly Just Talk. I don't think the Granada TV version that Mark links to above does it justice. at all Much better is the film that played on SnubTV.

Yep, I agree that the Granada version of Just Talk is rough and ready (Ian's comments above), but I just like seeing the pair of 'em in that setting! Close listening to the recorded piece is really revealing - the two percussive chiming shards of guitar (the only way I can describe them) are wonderful and I can just perceive a difference in their sound when they're repeated - it sounds like they've been muted. Very subtle, very beautiful.

Craig - I'm not casting doubts on your inestimable Googling abilities, but I'd question whether someone with a respectable track record of directing music videos for some fairly high-profile clients would chuck all that in to take jobs way down the showbiz food chain and become a trainee clapper loader. Can't be the same AC, surely?

As for the Granada TV clip, I saw that as it went out at the time. It was quite a big deal for me back then.

Incidentally I work with a woman who looks somewhat like Angela. I pointed this out to the co-worker a few months back, pretty safe in the knowledge she wouldnn't know who I was referring to. Sure enough she didn't but I gave her the usual youtube links. Upon viewing she agreed with me and said she found the experience unsettling.

The 12" or CD single of One Of Our Girls Has Gone Missing is a must-have for the cover of Lou Reed's Vicious. It too stands right on the edge of being a bit dated due to instrumentation, but somehow saves itself by going on enthusiastically for almost 9 minutes. Contributions seem heavier from Mute Drivers than Bruce, but it definitely still feels like a track he had a hand in.

If you're at all precious about original versions of covers you may want to skip this one (it strays just the slightest bit into Flying Lizards turf ca. Top Ten) but otherwise it's a lot of fun, and if nothing else entirely suitable for working your favorite overly-serious Lou Reed fan into a frenzy.

At the time of publication of ELAH Bruce and Angela had begun to record another cover version. A Eurythmics song. When I asked Bruce later what had become of it his reply was short, sharp and with some bitterness: "the least said the better".I think that was the last time they worked together.